And we have even more to give away. As promised a scrap bundle of my newest line Barcelona. There are only some precuts of the line available in stores, the yardage is expected to be shipped to stores by September. So you will luckily get a kind of sneak peek of fabric.

Your comments made my heart sing and I was so glad to hear when people said: You really captured the flair of Barcelona with that line. Well, that’s what I intended :-)

I would like to give each and everyone such a scrap bag, but you know – you should live all in one place so I can send one huge parcel :-)

But at least I decided to increase the number of parcels to send from one to three and so we have three lucky winners here

Katherine from Sewmesomethinggood

Susan from Studioadventures

and Mamarazza from Nürtingen

I’m going to send you an email asking for the postal address.

Congratulations to these lucky winners! And a huge thank you to everyone who took the time and left a comment. There was lots of warmth and encouragement in your words, I appreciate all your loving and nice comments!!!

Montag, 27. Mai 2013

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Montag, 13. Mai 2013

Hi, this is me again. Christine of www.grapes-heart.blogspot.com. Last week I promised to come back for a reveal of Brigitte’s new patterns for Zen Chic.

During the last four weeks, almost all of our MQG Bielefeld members have been helping Brigitte to prepare for Spring Quilt Market 2013 in Portland. Along with her new fabric line for MODA,“Barcelona”, she designed seven brand new patterns. As these new fabrics arrive only shortly before quilt market, there’s not much time to get those quilts for her booth done. So we volunteered to piece some quilt tops. She still had to piece the backing, baste, quilt and bind all those quilts…

Last Saturday was our monthly MQGB-Sew-In and we had a big Show & Tell with all the quilts WE MADE FOR PORTLAND (o; (Can you tell we are a tiny little bit proud to be part of this Quilt Market Crazyness…?!)

This is Brigitte with an appliqué quilt named “Clarity”

… details of her beautiful quilting:

…and the final pattern cover (available just in time for Quilt Market):

Evelyne made this cute Baby Quilt Top – the first Baby Quilt Pattern Brigitte designed for a fabric line):

Brigitte chose this boy-ish quilt design that features cars and arrows.

And this is the cover of “Child’s Play”, a beginner friendly quilt pattern.

This is Brigitte explaining “Thirtythree”, a quilt that uses the “Street Map” Prints of her fabric line “Barcelona”. She added the “magical number” 33 to the quilt as another hommage to Antoni Gaudí, who referred to #33 in his buildings repeatedly.

There is a second Ulrike in our MQG who made this beautiful quilt (but could not be there on Saturday):

Brigitte added a spiraling quilting design and machine-bound this green beauty using a decorative stitch of her sewing machine.

The Booklet Cover for “Quiet Haven”:

This rather straight line quilt top was made by me. Brigitte designed it as a wall hanging for a clearly structured office space.

To soften those straight lines and bold color contrasts, she chose a curvy-kidney-kind-of-quilting.

And here is how she designed the final pattern cover photo:

Last but not least, this is Brigitte again with another quilt: “Shine Through”, that was designed as an homage to Gaudí’s famous mosaics.

…she quilted it with a straight barcode design…

… and made this stunning cover (my favorite…).

That’s the seven quilts we helped making for Spring Quilt Market. There were two more for US based Quilting Magazines that we can’t show you right now. For those two Christa (who wasn’t at the Saturday’s meeting either, so we have no picture of her) was the helping angel. As soon as these both quilts are published and at newsstands, we can catch up on showing them. That a grand total of nine quilts in 4 weeks. And although we helped piecing and appliqueing, Brigitte still had to make backings, baste them, quilt them on her longarm machine and bind them. I am totally impressed by all the efforts she puts into each new fabric and pattern line and the perseverance to get everything done in time. I love each and every pattern she designed (but then, I am biased, I guess…).

Which one is your favorite?!

Brigitte, have a nice and safe trip to Portland and back!And don’t forget to bring back many memories and photos to share during our next monthly Quilt Talk!

Christine

P.S. Did you enter Brigitte’s Giveaway? There’s still time (until she gets back from Portland)…

Note from Brigitte: Thank you, thank you and did I already say THANK YOU my dear friends!!!! You know – I wouldn’t have managed everything in time without your help, and I’m very grateful I can rely on you all, your support and your skills. XOXOXO

again, I’m waving to you all, standing in front of my door with four suitcases. Martin and I are heading off to our flight to Portland, and we are going to give our best to make a great show! YEAH! Wish me luck and I’m glad you like what I brought you this time ;-)

She is quilting up a storm for Spring Quilt Market right now and I’m honored that she asked me to introduce to you her new fabric line for Moda.

So without much further ado here is “Barcelona”:

Brigitte’s third fabric line for Moda is a homage to the city of Barcelona and one of it’s most famous citizens, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (1852-1926). The great architect Gaudí found his main inspiration in nature and in geometric forms. He is considered as one of the masters of Catalan Modernism.

Brigitte’s fabric line features colorful cathedral windows or tiles like Gaudi used so often in the Parc Güell

The colors range from black, gray, dark green, apple-ish green, blue, orange to off-white. Sparkled with hints of red and yellow. Perfect for quilt patterns that show off graduated colors.

In the last couple of weeks our modern quilt guild has become a group of little elves. Almost every one with a slightly advanced skill level helped piecing quilt tops following Brigitte’s newest pattern collection. Tune in next week for an overview of her brand new Zen Chic patterns that will be available just in time for Spring Quilt Market.

Here’s a little teaser:

So what do you think? We would love to hear what you think of “Barcelona”. What projects would you like to make from Brigitte’s newest fabric collection? Leave us a comment and we will draw a random winner of a bag full of scrap strips of “Barcelona” (by the end of May, when Brigitte will be back from Quilt Market). Brand new and months before Barcelona will be available at quilt stores (due Fall 2013).